Tag: alcoholics
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June 19, 2009 09:33 AM EDT --
MPR's Midmorning hosted an on air show about hidden alcoholism that is firmly at the top of our most e-mailed stories:
A new book focuses on the people who are alcoholics but manage to keep their . . .
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January 26, 2009 11:44 PM EST --
Nights Before the Mast
(Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea)
For all the alcoholics and those who ride herd on them...
In the dark of the night when the bottle is done
And the voices are calling aloud . . .
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October 12, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
There was an appointment I had to get to this morning. It was with a mental health professional. I haven't sought therapy in a long time but feeling lately that I need it again. . . .
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August 10, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
I grew up a child of alcoholics and hippies. My birth father to this day is the biggest hippy there ever was. His "brekkie" consists of joint "roaches" left over from the . . .
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September 03, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
I have been thinking about something that is quite frustrating. Yesterday I visited my brother's home. He is my favorite brother, because he is so calm and caring. He married . . .
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January 21, 2007 10:23 PM EST --
There is a constant struggle between my friend Kenny, the flaming demon alcohol, and little ole me.
This war has gotten purely bitter and to be completely frank, I am at my wits end. I do not like . . .
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February 07, 2009 07:06 PM EST --
Tomorrow we're heading to my old home town to see my family. It's my grandma's 80th birthday, so all her kids (my step-mom, her 3 sisters, and 3 brothers) are pitching in to pay for a banquet . . .
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February 06, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
I am going to an AA meeting tonight to get my 30 day chip. Yes indeed. 30 days. I was tickled pink, until I asked my friend from New York, who at this moment is in Georgia on his way . . .
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July 05, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
No mercy, sneaks up on your right
Sickening stench, does no good to fight
Ten millionth time you push him off
He comes right back howling
He knows he has won
Bastard fire in his eyes
Masked in . . .
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August 07, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
Liquor shoppers seem to possess impeccable short-term memories. They always seem to remember exactly how much all of their alcohol costs at the time of check-out. When I tell them how much they owe . . .
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December 26, 2008 11:41 AM EST --
JOY ~
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which
I have got hold of for the moment, and
want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future . . .
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February 16, 2007 01:43 PM EST --
I was criticized by a friend on Gather about the lack of dialogue in my book.
Testing my ability, first thing this morning, I realized that I can write a piece with dialogue in a pinch if I want to. . . .
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January 23, 2009 09:45 AM EST --
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man was arrested late Wednesday after police said he stole a car and crashed into a building.
Investigators said Richard Glover stole the car on South Roys Avenue, located on the . . .
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September 10, 2009 02:55 PM EDT --
My friend forgot about me twice, but on Tuesday she asked me to go to a gay AA meeting with her. (an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for gay people and those who support them)
So I went & we had fun! . . .
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March 14, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
What exactly is so stimulating about consuming alcohol? It seems like everyone is always bragging about what they've drank in recent history and why it makes them so superior. I do not drink and have . . .
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July 01, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
Last night when I got home I was emotionally drained, I had been talking to my friend Kelly for several hours about how she cannot change her boyfriend. Kelly is currently in typical situation . . .
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September 18, 2008 09:53 PM EDT --
When I was six years old and my parents divorced, I had very little knowledge of why. All I knew was that my life was changing all around me in really huge ways. My mother had packed my sister and I up . . .
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March 26, 2009 12:29 PM EDT --
A DRUNK FELL IN A HOLE AND COULDN'T GET OUT
A businessman went by. The drunk called out for help. The businessman threw
him some money and told him, "Get yourself a ladder." But . . .
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September 20, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
Have you ever been on a plane with an obnoxious person or persons? I have been. I remember once a bunch of alcoholics were wanting to share their "joy" with the whole plane. It . . .
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February 11, 2009 11:11 AM EST --
I am thirty nine today! Today is my birthday. I think birthdays are very special. This is the day you were introduced into the world. This is the day that your seed was planted firmly in the . . .
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